Pro-Trump, white-supremacist emails are cropping up around the Ivy League

Yale students at a rally
in 2015 to draw attention to issues of racism on
campus.Philipp Arndt
Photography

Students at two Ivy League schools have received emails that
mention white genocide and Donald Trump.

At Princeton University on Saturday, a number of students
received emails believed to be from a member of a white-supremacy
group called the "White GeNOcide Project,"
The Daily Princetonian reported.

The email said Donald Trump understands that diversity threatens
white people and that Princeton teaches "white students that they
are immoral and contemptible if they don’t support White
Genocide."

Steve Goode, a representative for the White GeNOcide Project,
said the group is a grassroots movement, so they're unsure who
sent the emails, but he said he does "agree with whoever sent
them" and thanked them "for their activism," The Princetonian
reported.

At Harvard, students received similar emails on October 2 with
the subject line "Fight White Genocide — Vote Trump!" which was
signed by Educators and Students Against White Genocide,
The Harvard Crimson reported.

The email to Harvard students appears to be from the same
group that sent the email to Princeton students. Dean of Harvard
College Rakesh Khurana Harvard has asked university police
to investigate the matter.

Students
walk around the Princeton University campus.REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

The group's site also hit back at Harvard's response to the
emails by saying that "Dean Khurana’s response illustrates
perfectly that you cannot have diversity and free speech."

It's unclear exactly why the white supremacy group targeted the
Ivy League with its messaging, though certain schools within the
elite group have been a hotbed for issues of racial
discrimination and free speech.

Photographs of black professors at Harvard Law School were
defaced last year. That sparked outrage on campus, and at
Princeton students protested for the removal of Woodrow Wilson's
name on campus, citing his ties to racism.

But perhaps racial tension has been most apparent at Yale, where
protests over several perceived incidents of racial
discrimination engulfed the campus and resulted in harsh scrutiny
from outside sources.

"I think the most important thing to point out is the
double standard and the hypocrisy," Dershowitz told Business
Insider in November 2015. "These are students who want safe
spaces for themselves but not for others. They're prepared to
spit on people going out of lectures."